Contents
Exceptional behaviour of Arabic long vowels in modern Turkish and Uighur : a government phonology explanation for disharmony / Ann Denwood 1
[요약] 1
1. Introduction 2
2. Three elements for vowels: A, I and U 2
2.1. Universal restrictions on element combination 3
2.2. Restrictions specific to an individual language 4
3. Turkish vowels: a, e, i, l[i], o, o, u, u(이미지참조) 5
3.1. Vowel harmony 5
3.2. Charette and Goksel's hypothesis(이미지참조) 6
4. Arabic loan words 8
4.1. Long vowels and disharmony 10
4.2. Long vowels and consonant-vowel disharmony 10
5. Revised analysis of Turkish vowels 11
5.1. The opaque properties of element heads 12
5.2. What drives Turkish harmony? 14
6. Parallel phenomena in Uighur 15
7. Diachronic cause; synchronic effect 16
8. Conclusion 17
References 17